Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is Gold.

• Gold is not found in the Chota Nagpur Plateau.

Key Points

• Chhota Nagpur Plateau:
  • Chotanagpur plateau represents the north-eastern projection of the Indian Peninsula.
  • Chhota Nagpur plateau has an abundance of mineral resources such as mica, bauxite, copper, limestone, iron ore and coal.

Additional Information

• Gold in India is found in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh. 

The correct answer is Majam.

• Majam river is a part of the Arabian sea drainage system.

Key Points

• Majam river is the tributary of the Sabarmati River.
• Sabarmati River:
  • It originates near the Aravalli ranges.
  • Its Tributaries are Hathmati, Meshwa, Betrak, Majam, Baval.

Additional Information

• Sabi river is also known as the Sahibi river.
  • It drains into the river Yamuna.
• Kuntal river is also known as the Kantli river and has inland drainage.
• Mej river is a tributary of the Chambal river.

The least possible Venn diagram is,

Conclusion 1: All apples are bananas → True (This is definitely true)

Conclusion 2: Some bananas are mangoes → True (This is definitely true)

Hence, both 1 and 2 follow.

The correct option is Most of the bees in the hive are worker bees.

• Every honey bee colony comprises a single queen, a few hundred drones and several thousand worker castes of honey bees.
• A queen bee is the only female bee in the hive that gets to reproduce.
• Worker bees are all female and are all offspring of the queen. 
• Queen is a fertile, functional female, the worker is a sterile female and the drone is a male insect.
• Queen and worker develop from the fertilized egg while drone develops from an unfertilized egg.
• Further differentiation of queen and worker depends on the quality and quantity of food that is fed to the queen or worker larvae.

Explanation:

​Every beehive has one male bee and many female bees → Inorrect.

Most of the bees in the hive are worker bees → Correct

The study of honey bee is sericulture → Inorrect.

Beehives are octagonal in shapes→ Incorrect. (Hexagonal)

​Additional Information

The queen:

• ​There is only one queen in a colony and considerably larger than the members of other castes.
• Swarming is the natural method that honeybee colonies use for multiplying their colonies.
• The old queen is killed as soon as the new queen is fertilized.
• The phenomenon of raising a queen in the off-season is called supersedure.
• The normal lifespan of a queen is 3 years.

​The drone:

• ​The drones are male bees with no sting.
• They are much larger and stouter than either the queen or the workers.
• Their only function is to impregnate the young queen a task which they are unable to perform until they are about 10 days of age.
• They also help in the maintenance of hive temperature. 
• The drones are produced by unfertilized eggs of the queen, or by those workers which take up the reproductive function due to the absence of a queen in a colony.
• The normal lifespan of a drone is 57 days. 

​The worker:

• ​Smallest inhabitants of the beehive.
• They are imperfect females incapable of laying eggs.
• Worker bees primary duties are cleaning, feeding developing larva once hypopharyngeal glands develop, ripening of honey, secreting/moulding of wax into combs.
• The lifespan of a worker is about 4 weeks during the active season and 8 to 10 weeks during the less active season.
• On certain occasions when the colony is in need of a queen, some of the workers start laying eggs from which only drones are produced.
• These workers called laying workers.

The correct answer is OMR.

Important Points

• Optical mark recognition
  • It is the input device used to scan a marked answer book of a multiple choice question paper.
  • An optical answer sheet or bubble sheet is a special type of form used in multiple-choice question examinations. 
  • Optical mark recognition is used to detect answers.

Additional Information

• OCR
  • ​OCR (Optical Character Recognition) recognizes all the characters from the paper document.
  • It collects and stores them into an editable document.
• ​MICR
  • ​The term magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) refers to the line of numbers that appears at the bottom of a check.
  • The MICR line is a group of three numbers, which are the check number, account number, and bank routing number.
• Card reader
  • A card reader is a data input device that reads data from a card-shaped storage medium.